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“The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.”
― In Defense of Elitism
― In Defense of Elitism
“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.”
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“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”
― In Defense of Elitism
― In Defense of Elitism
“A brand of anti-intellectual populism is running amok, eerily reminiscent of the nineteenth-century Know-Nothing movement, albeit a mirror image of it in political terms.”
― In Defense of Elitism
― In Defense of Elitism
Maya’s 2025 Year in Books
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